Wellington's wars the making of a military genius
Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, lives on in popular memory as the "Invincible General," loved by his men, admired by his peers, formidable to his opponents. This incisive book revises such a portrait, offering an accurate - and controversial - new analysis of Wellington's remark...
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New Haven
Yale University Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Preface : a military genius?
- An introduction to war and politics : Arthur Wellesley in Europe and India, 1794-1799
- Command apprenticeship : the campaign against Dhoondiah Vagh, 1800
- earning the wrong lessons : war with the Marathas, 1801-1803
- From India to the Peninsula : 1804-1808
- The search for a strategy : the defence of Portugal, 1809-1810
- England's oldest ally : the liberation of Portugal, 1811
- England's essential ally : the invasion of Spain, 1812
- 'I will beat them out, and with great ease' : the liberation of Spain and the invasion of France, 1813-1814
- wellington's Waterloo : the battle for the balance of power in Europe, 1814-1815
- Conclusion : from sepoy general to military statesman